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Spring Photography Workshop with Bill Lea

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Attention budding photographers: the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont will be offering its' annual Spring Photography Workshop on April 15-18.

Nationally recognized nature photographer Bill Lea will lead a workshop this year emphasizing wildlife, landscape, and macro photography. Bill and his assistants will tailor the program to the skill level and interests of each individual participant, with plenty of one-on-one instruction. Field sessions and lectures will cover the use of light, composition, and equipment.

This is a great opportunity to learn how to capture the beauty of the Smokies through the eyes of a professional photographer.

For more information, please click here.

If you can't make it to the workshop there's a new book coming out in the near future that might be of interest to you. Photographer and author, Jim Hargan, has published a brand new guide for photographing the Great Smoky Mountains, and is due to be released on March 7th. For more information and to pre-order the book on Amazon, please click here.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Wilderness First Responder Course

Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Do you know how to respond to backcountry emergency situations? The Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont will be offering a week-long course next month for anyone interested in wilderness travel or in emergency medical training.

The course offers hands-on training for dealing with bites, burns and other injuries. It will also teach participants how to manage conditions brought about from extreme temperatures and other outdoor emergencies.

Instructors from Roane State Community College will be leading the program. The program will take place from Sunday evening, January 16, to the following Sunday afternoon, January 23. You should note that all participants are required to have completed Professional Level CPR before attending, or CPR for the Healthcare Provider.

Interestingly, participants are also required to bring 2 sets of clothing that can be destroyed in scenario training.

The cost is $795, and includes meals, lodging, and instruction. Advance registration required.

Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is an educational partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tremont is a non-profit environmental education center that provides programs that celebrate ecological and cultural diversity, foster stewardship, and nurture appreciation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

For additional information on the course, please click here.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Great Smokies News Roundup

Friday, July 9th, 2010
"At what elevation do deer turn into elk?"

"I thought I'd heard it all," 24-year-old Ranger David Worth said with a grin, "but that one really caught me off guard." Fielding park questions, offbeat and otherwise, is all in a day's work for Worth, an interpretive ranger assigned to the back country of Mount LeConte. You can read Sam Venable's full story by clicking here.


* Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close the Foothills Parkway in Cocke County on Monday to aid in the next phase of a construction project to rehabilitate the 5.6-mile road. The project is expected to be completed on Aug. 20 at which time the road will reopen to the public.


* A National Park Service environmental assessment has cleared the way for an up-to-$12 million renovation of the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.


* A section of U.S. 129 (a.k.a. "The Dragon") along the southeastern border of the Great Smokies that was closed due to a large rock slide in March is scheduled to reopen today.


* Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers plan to set up a sobriety checkpoint tomorrow on Highway 73 near the area known as the Townsend Wye.


* For decades, scientists have speculated about why some fireflies exhibit synchronous flashing, in which large groups produce rhythmic, repeated flashes in unison -- sometimes lighting up a whole forest at once. Now, the first experiments on the function of this phenomenon suggest that synchronous flashing preserves female fireflies' recognition of suitable mates.





Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail descriptions, key features, pictures, video, maps, elevation profiles, news, and more.

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